GzipArchive.Open

GzipArchive.Open method

Opens the archive for extraction and provides a stream with archive content.

public Stream Open()

Return Value

The stream that represents the contents of the archive.

Remarks

Read from the stream to get the original content of a file. See examples section.

Examples

Extracts the archive and copies extracted content to file stream.

using (var archive = new GzipArchive("archive.gz"))
{
    using (var extracted = File.Create("data.bin"))
    {
        var unpacked = archive.Open();
        byte[] b = new byte[8192];
        int bytesRead;
        while (0 < (bytesRead = unpacked.Read(b, 0, b.Length)))
            extracted.Write(b, 0, bytesRead);
    }            
}

You may use Stream.CopyTo method for .NET 4.0 and higher:

unpacked.CopyTo(extracted);

See Also

GzipArchive.ExtractToDirectory GzipArchive.Save